Show Is it A sin to be big the record and advertiser a weekly news paper published in 13 brooklyn rooklyn recently ran a long editorial on the governments suit against Z a big chain system which is charged with being mon monopolistic opo listic the paper observed that it had never had any advertising from this concern and so had no financial interest in the matter an said in part just think ht is a great corporation idt dofa a tre tremendous amount of business paying fabulous sums jn in taxes hiring thousands of persons owning store buildings in a thousand places and probably renting a thousand other places that thai should be an asset to any nation it has used its great power to cut prices down to the lowest on the same block in ill many places are individual dealers selling the same merchandise and pro prospering not only does the monopoly averaged idea ragel fall to register with the ave average housewife but also she has something else that is bothering her she cannot understand why the government should be spending millions to keep prices up while the chain stores and individual dealers are fighting to bring t prices price 9 downa down a necessary practice because of their competition actually to argue that this or any other ether store system has anything resembling a monopoly is absurd the business done by all the chain stores in the country 1 combined makes a much smaller total than that done by the independents the government seems to be out to punish bigness just because it is big if it succeeds a system of competitive business which gives us the most quality and quantity for the least money will be ba undermined and well all suffer SUMMIT POINT by mrs grace hall we are having lovely fall after thinking winter had set in when we had our two snow storms storm S mr air and mrs earl wright and daughter laura were out to their ranch arich sunday afternoon for material to use on their house they are building in dove creek C E hall has been busy building and repairing his reservoirs so they will be ready for lexi next year mr and mrs tilford jones and two dau daughters aters were durango visitors th 0 first of the week asek albert hall is busy laying the concrete foundation for their new home he hc finished the gravel hauling 1 from cahone cabone colo last wednesday nead ay the summit paint cewin sewing club met at mrs jac jack dai r ars last tuesday with thirteen ladies present delicious refreshments were served HOSPITAL NOTES those admitted to the hospital this past week were mrs wallace johnson of monticello mrs rex harvey of blanding for surgery mrs byron eastin and baby boy of monticello those thosa discharged from the hospital were gene schafer mrs rex harve harvey y nedra palmer and genevieve palmer |